Ministries of the Republic of TatarstanMinistry of Digitalization of Public Administration, Information Technologies and Communications of the Republic of Tatarstan
Unique Samsung Android Lab opened at the Kazan Federal University
26 July 2012, Thursday
A unique laboratory Samsung Android Lab opened at the Kazan Federal University.
The agreement of cooperation had been signed before in presence of Minister of informatization and communications Roman Shaikhutdinov, rector of KFU Ilshat Gafurov, official of Samsung company Evgeny Vasiliev, Director of High technology technopark “IT-park” Dinar Nasyrov, Director of the Higher school of information technology and information systems Airat Khasyanov and leading developer of Samsung company Aleksandr Kolesnikov.
Minister of informatization and communications Roman Shaikhutdinov noted:
“Such companies are welcomed in republic. From practical point of view, we see participation of government informatization, - an opportunity to realize and enlarge user community of the state information system via Android operational system. We would like to have a functional product. On our part, we will render extensive support. Tatarstan is now one of the most advanced IT regions. We wish the company and the Kazan Federal University trust-based relations and further cooperation.”
“Today’s event is an important stage in realization of our agreement. We are planning implementation of another project - provision of IT solutions for educational institutions (Samsung smart school) for one lecture room of the university. We suppose that Kazan is the IT capital of Russia. We hope that results of our cooperation will be of federal level,” Evgeny Vasiliev said.
Press service of RT Ministry of informatization and communications
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Opening hours: 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
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